The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-07
Farm and Garden Notes.

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Farm and Garden Notes.
Chickens should always, if possible, be
cooped near grass.
Try boiled sweet milk for chickens af-
fected with diarrh9a.
Hens will sometimes lay several eggs
after beginning to sit.
Every farmer needs a roller. A plank
drag and pulverizer is also a useful
implement.
Manure, pruning knives, attention and
sunshine are recommended as the best
helps to rose culture,
The best remedy for the current borer
is careful cutting away and burning of
all infected branches.
Downy mildew causes brown or gray
rot. In Wisconsin the greatest loss from
rot is due to this fungus.
Paper put on in May and tarred with
tar gas or printers ink will keep out the
apple borer, and last three years.
The good results of tile drainage are
not all manifest in wet weather. 1t Is
equally beneficial in time of drought.
Unslacked lime, scattered about sta
bles and other places where feas are
likely to resort, has a tendency to re-
move the pests.
An elevated tree near building may
save the latter from a disastrous stroke
of lightning. A good rod, paid for
when it is put up, is better, however.
Fowls do best when allowed to roam at
large in field and orchard, but when 1t is
obligatory to shut them up they should
be supplied with meat scraps, butchers
ETC.
The orchard, with its fruit and shade,
is good place for chicks as we'll as ma
tured fowls, all the better if the ground
between the trees is even partially Guilt
waited.
Attention to little things helps along
with greater. 1t does not pay, for ex-
ample, to use heavy, dull hoes, OF
scythes, cultivators or reapers out of
order.
The cultivation of sunf1owers is on the
increase. The object is -fold-or-
naments, sanitary effects. and food for
poultry, to which is added in some local
tiles substitute for fuel.
Orchard grass is especially valuable,
says contemporary, because it makes
the earliest and latest pasture, and once
I
will outlast the farmers lifetime.
Proper trimming is essential to success
in all fruit growing. An overburden of
limbs and foliage will exhaust natures
storehouse and cause the tree to be-
come impaired in health and defective in
fruit.
DR.. Vincent, of Deckerville, Mich,
saws pear trees on light, sandy soil need
! IF oil hoauu nj nm
der each tree at the time of setting. In
this respect, he adds, pears differ from
other fruit.
excellent egg producing food is one
part corn meal, two parts bran, two parts
ground oats, one part ground meal, and
! one part middlings, to which may be
added a small portion of bone meal and
salt scald it and feed early in the morn
ing.
A California farmer cures cattle bloat,
caused by eating wet clover, thus Drop
six drops of colOcynth on teaspoonful
of pulverized sugar for horse or COW,
place it well back on the tongue, and If
| not relieved repeat the dose in twenty
minutes. 1t never fails to cure, he says.
Speaking of fattening hogs, w. B. E.,
! of Hutchinson, Kansas, says: u am
! satisfied L can 1atten nOSS IN IWo-lnirus
the time where corn is soaked, and |
! claim full twenty-five per cent. is saved
| in feed, as the same amount will contrib
ute more to growth and fat than dry
corn. Soaked corn should be used from
February till dry corn comes In.
Practical and successful breeders claim
that constant supply of salt for swine
is a safe preventive of diseases, one that
can be counted on with degree of GER
taintv that by its constant use the sys-
TEN is made strong to ward off disease ;
that cholera does not start in herds re-
ceiving this care that these herds often
escape when all others around them are
destroyed.